If you really want others to enjoy what you play, you need to be enjoying yourself.
They call it self-expression, but how can you fully express yourself if you aren’t fully connected to yourself or to the music? How can you fully express yourself if everything is clowded out by technical concerns?
In this video, I work with a Villa-Lobos Study, breaking it down into its chord components, because this illustrates the concept very clearly.
But you don’t have to alter the music at all to do this exercise. You also can do this exercise with:
- a very simple, shorter piece
- with smaller sections of any piece
- even with a musical phrase or snippet
- anything that you are reasonably comfortable with and want to go deeper with
- You can even do this with scales or other technical exercises–which forms a new kind of technical exercise:an “inner technique” exercise that develops musical self-expression and understanding.
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the demonstration of the wonderfull piece. This piece is a very good practice for the righthand techinique. It is difficult to do fast but slow practice initially will allow to get up to speed. Very tricky right hand practice. It ensures the flexibilty of the fingers. Pima pattern takes some to time to get used to it.- Pipipmiamaimpipi -Sequential planting to be applied. Harmonically , a beautifull piece. It gives a very good feeling. Left hand technique is basically easier as it is the similar chord pattern to be followed throughout.
I used this piece as a warm up practice and increases the flexibilty of right hand.
Jey